On October 24 (the 19th of the ninth lunar month), twenty more people shaved their heads and renounced the householder's life. The occasion coincided with the commemoration of the day that Guanyin Bodhisattva and the Venerable Master Hua renounced the householder's life. It was especially meaningful to see these twenty new novices getting their heads shaved and putting on their robes. Their relatives and friends came in droves to watch and take pictures, and the two hundred participants in the Guanyin Bodhisattva's Leaving Home Celebration recited along with them. The Buddha Hall at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas bubbled with excitement and joy.

Of the twenty novices, eight are male and twelve are female. Their ages range from fifteen to over seventy. Members of the Sangha under the Venerable Master together shaved the heads of the new novices. At the beginning of the head-shaving ceremony, the novices imagined their parents in front of them and sincerely bowed thrice to the Buddhas on their parents' behalf. During the ceremony, the Dharma Masters reminded these new novices, "Now that you have shaved your heads and left the home-life, you must make a vast resolve to seek the Buddha Way and transform living beings." The Dharma names of these new novices are: Chin Chin, Chin Hao, Chin Fu, Chin Guan, Ming Heng, Chin Lung, Chin An, Chin Luo, Chin Mao, Chin Yuan, Chin Yi, Chin Shan, Chin Li, Chin Xian, Chin Yuri, Chin Hui, Chin Yang, Chin Yung, Chin Yi, Chin Tai. Shramanera Ming Heng had left the home-life earlier in France but had received only the Eight Precepts then; on this day he finally received the Ten Shramanera Precepts.

These twenty are the second group of Buddhist laity who have applied to leave the home-life and been accepted since the Venerable Master Hua's Nirvana. The first group of twenty-three left home in November 1998 at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas. After the new novices undergo a period of intensive training, they will be sent to serve at various Wav-places.